Cultural Mosaic or Farce?

I, like every other Canadian, have been thoroughly educated to believe that Canada is a cultural mosaic. Our fifth, ninth and eleventh grade teachers proudly indoctrinated us into believing that unlike America we welcomed our cultural differences. But having just finished this years History class and with a Federal Election looming I have to question the legitimacy of this claim. Has Canada traditionally welcomed religious and ethnic minorities? Yes. Has it done so out of an unadulterated sense of goodwill? Absolutely not. In the 19th century Canada was a small, terrified country with America looming to the South. What is a country to do? Naturally, import whoever is willing to live in a frozen, ungoverned wasteland. Or in other words, who's going to be moving to 1800's "Canada". That's right, people who were coming from somewhere worse, that is groups that were being persecuted. This also set Canada down it's path of moral superiority. I think of all this because while I am proud of Canada as a bilingual  country, as I have said before, and wish I spoke French, this all just seems a bit ridiculous to me. I will be working at the Election where I have been instructed to greet every voter with "Hello Bonjour", even though by far the majority of voters at my location will be English, German or some mix. In my area where Spanish and German far outweigh French speakers, do I really have to say "Bonjour" so that some voter in Quebec doesn't get mad? I support the French speaking areas of Canada in protecting their cultural identity. But if Canada wants to brag about it's cultural mosaic-ness, shouldn't we be protecting ALL cultural identities?